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5 - Leadership, the Funding of Power, and Sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World

from Part II - Variability in Status Consumption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

Paul Roscoe
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University of Maine
Cindy Isenhour
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University of Maine
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Summary

Across the prehispanic Mesoamerican world, governance, leadership, and the ways that power was funded varied at key cities and central places. Based on preliminary findings, the more autocratically ruled, unequal polities were less sustainable.

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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
, pp. 114 - 144
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Print publication year: 2021

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